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Rock
March 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
NME
and Me: A Brief History of the Best Music Mag of the 20th Century
Looking back at 65 years of the essential arbiter of pop music, whose famed print edition is soon to close down.
October 3, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Goodbye, Tom Petty
The man who defined the sound of America has died at age 66.
December 30, 2016
Alex Shephard
What Happened to Rock Music?
The genre hasn’t been this irrelevant in decades, which was only underscored by a slew of memoirs by aging rock stars.
April 2, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Why "Indie" Music Is So Unbearably White
February 6, 2013
Michael Tedder
Alternative Rock is the New Classic Rock.
And that's OK.
May 2, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Chicago’s New Course Against Voter Suppression
December 17, 1984
Josef Škvorecký
Hipness at Noon
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